Yesterday we set an assignment to find out the counties of various UK cities and Patricia Bailey requested the answers - so here they are!

  • Inverness - Inverness-shire
  • Edinburgh - Midlothian
  • Glasgow - Lanarkshire
  • Newcastle - Tyne & Wear
  • Carlisle - Cumbria
  • Leeds - Yorkshire
  • Liverpool - Merseyside
  • Londonderry - County Londonderry
  • Belfast - County Antrim
  • Manchester - Greater Manchester
  • Birmingham - West Midlands
  • Bangor - Gwynedd
  • Cardiff - South Glamorgan
  • Swansea - West Glamorgan
  • Bristol - awarded its own county status!
  • Exeter - Devon
  • Oxford - Oxfordshire
  • Portsmouth - Hampshire
  • Plymouth - Devon
  • Norwich - Norfolk
  • Nottingham - Nottinghamshire
  • Peterborough - Cambridgeshire

How many did you get? Are there any contentious ones?